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(or - Stop users button mashing while you generate their reports)
Imagine you have a webapp that dynamically generates reports, maybe they're PDFs (mine often are). Sometimes these reports take a while to produce, because they're retrieving and processing a load of data from some huge database.
I had a need to process a bunch of PDFs containing some sensitive info, before they could be forwarded to an external team. This is how I did that data obfuscation from a Unix command line.